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Meaning of ptosis palpebral



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

ptosis palpebral
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In Ophthalmology is the technical or medical term for referring the eyelid or drooping eyelids. It is due to the weakening of the muscle that controls the eyelid, usually caused by old age.

  



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From Greek ptosis, fall and Latin palpebralis, referring to eyelids. Medical term : eyelid drop whose most common cause is atrophy of the muscle that lifts it. Our admired Jorge Luis Borges had this problem next to the hereditary progressive blindness consummated in 1955 that caused him to lose the world of appearances and readers opened luminous spaces of happiness to us.

  










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